Comment on McNollgast "Legislative Intent"

Interest Analysis and the Myth of Legislative Intent

Was There a Baby in the Bathwater? a Comment on the Supreme Court's Legislative Veto Decision*

Examining the Supreme Court's recent decisions in the legislative veto case, Professor Strauss stresses the importance of a distinction no Justice observed between use of the veto in matters affecting direct, continuing, political, executive-congressional relations, and use of the veto in a regulatory context. Only the latter, he argues, had to be reached by the Court; and only the latter prese...

Political Control of the Bureaucracy McNollgast

A ubiquitous feature of modern statutory law is delegation. Legislation typically delegates policy implementation to a bureaucracy. This delegation presents a dilemma. The specialized knowledge of an expert agency may be necessary to unravel the technical uncertainties surrounding the impact of alternative policy actions; however, the policy preferences of bureaucrats are often different from t...

NEEDLESTICK SAFETY AND PREVENTION ACT: JOINT STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT (Senate)

The text, reproduced here by the International Healthcare Worker Safety Center, University of Virginia, is part of the U.S. government legislative record and as such is in the public domain. Passages deemed of particular importance have been highlighted in bold. The Statement of Legislative Intent provides guidance to courts and OSHA administrative law judges in cases where the " plain meaning ...

On Predicting User Intent

Recent advances in computing capability and approaches have underlined the need for user support in task execution. This is especially evident in dynamic, real-time systems where decision making is critical and errors are costly. Environments such as air traffic control centers leave little time for human operators to make critical decisions. Operators must contend with a significant amount of ...